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Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rosepink, artificial bedizenment.

From Sartor Resartus, and On Heroes, Hero-Worship, and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

The bed was a big four-poster, which no bedizenment could bring within the fashion of the day.

From The Raid of The Guerilla and Other Stories by Craffock, Charles Egbert

Bedizen not yourselves with the bedizenment of the Time of Ignorance.

From Three Translations of The Koran (Al-Qur'an) side by side by Ali, Abdullah Yusuf

Not white sunlight: something operatic; a kind of rose-pink, artificial bedizenment.

From On Heroes and Hero Worship and the Heroic in History by Carlyle, Thomas

Much in the same way was Cluffe affected over his bedizenment in relation to his own lady-love; but in a calmer and more long-headed fashion.

From The House by the Church-Yard by Le Fanu, Joseph Sheridan